How to force HTTP access instead of HTTPS?

I want to accomplish something unique and use HTTP instead of HTTPS for using all kinds of different websites, and was wondering if anyone has any ideas about how to accomplish this feat. The internet is very difficult to search these days, and gives results like...search with https! And basically ignores my requests. I think it's interesting, and am always looking for unique ways to use technology which afford us different benefits. I think http is interesting because I have seen a lot of different websites making strange unsolicited connections, and generally being up to lots of sneaky behavior, so with http we can hopefully examine these types of connections in more detail, and better understand sneaky behavior that evolves over time. Anywho I am going to continue researching this line of thinking, and if anyone out there in the void has an idea to input that may be helpful that would... be helpful. thank you edit: so I'm digging around and found some basic answers that are unhelpful to me, such as using firefox settings to disable https redirection. browser.fixup.fallback-to-https false (doesn't alter the situation) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30532471/firefox-redirects-to-https I think that either our dns servers, or perhaps web servers themselves will attempt to force us all to use https, so perhaps the only true solution is going to be to deny the https protocol itself entirely on the local host, and if remote web servers refuse to connect via http than we can safely disregard them as insecure, and find alternatives. It's also likely that in order for this strategy to succeed we will need unique solutions instead, of just one solution, because technology will adapt new methods to inappropriately impose constraints on our, in this case, interactions with remote web servers. So I'm pressing ahead with this issue and trying different things, here's how I disabled https on the local host using gufw (added a simple rule to deny incoming/outgoing https) [img] [/img] It's concerning because I've noticed that unsolicited connections will come to, and from, my browser, and there's no way to know what initiated these exchanges, or what they are doing. Disabling https completely with my firewall on my own computer prevents firefox from accessing lots of websites.. like this one: unix.stackexchange.com and google. (they attempt to load in an infinite loop) However using a different web browser, lynx, I can connect to google with http immediately. [img] [/img]